Aldi pulls Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes over dirty word

Roald Dahl's classic 1982 children's book Revolting Rhymes has been pulled from Aldi's supermarket shelves after customers complained about the use of the word "slut".

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The offending word is found in Dahl's poem parody of the Cinderella fairy tale.

"The Prince cried, 'Who's this dirty slut? Off with her nut!'" the prince says when he sees Cinderella in her rags, during his search for the owner of the glass slipper left behind at the palace ball.

The illustrated collection of poems only went on sale in Aldi on Wednesday, Fairfax Media reports.

But the complaints began that same day, with one customer posting to the Aldi Australia Facebook page: "My neighbour bought a Roald Dahl Brooke (sic) from your store today and there is a unacceptable word in it for kids!!! Not ok!"

A spokeswoman for Aldi said the supermarket chain had removed copies of Revolting Rhymes from its stores following "comments by a limited number of concerned customers regarding the language used in this particular book".